Title: Random Normal Matrices by Riemann-Hilbert Problem Speaker: Seung Yeop Lee, Caltech Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: D-bar problem has been so far not successful for the asymptotic analysis of the orthogonal polynomials on the plane. Asymptotic analysis through Riemann-Hilbert problem is however possible when … Read more
Title: On Elliptic Calogero-Moser Systems for Complex Crystallographic Reflection Groups Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Pavel Etingof, MIT Date: Friday, December 21, 2012 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: To every irreducible finite crystallographic reflection group (i.e., an irreducible finite reflection group G acting faithfully on an abelian variety … Read more
Title: State Integrals of Turaev-Viro Type on Shaped Triangulations Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Rinat Kashaev, University of Geneva Date: Thursday, December 20, 2012 Time: 2:30pm – 3:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: A shaped triangulation is a triangulation of an oriented pseudo 3-manifold where each tetrahedron carries dihedral angles … Read more
Title: Knot Homologies from Instanton Counting With Ramification Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Sergei Gukov, Caltech Date: Thursday, December 20, 2012 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
Title: The Verlinde Formula from Mirror Symmetry Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Sergei Gukov, Caltech Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
Title: DAHA Approach in the Refined Chern-Simons Theory and the BPS Theory of Invariants of Torus Knots Speaker: Ivan Cherednik, University of North Carolina Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: The Chern-Simons gauge theory (Witten and others) for the Wilson loops associated with the knots … Read more
Title: Integrability and Gauge Theory: Summary and Outlook Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Samson Shatashvili, Trinity College Dublin Date: Thursday, December 13, 2012 Time: 11:30am – 12:30pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center
Title: Hall Algebras and Quantum Groups Program: Integrability in Modern Theoretical and Mathematical Physics Speaker: Mike Gorsky, Jussieu Paris Date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Place: Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: We will discuss how the concept of Hall algebras of abelian and exact categories is related to the theory of … Read more
Title: Topology, Quantum Anomalies, and Non-dissipative Transport Speaker: Dmitri Kharzeev, Stony Brook University Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm Place: Lecture Hall 102, Simons Center Abstract: Topology of gauge fields and quantum anomalies can induce a number of interesting phenomena in strongly interacting systems with chiral fermions. … Read more
Title: Tightness and Open Book Decompositions Speaker: Andy Wand, University of California Berkeley Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 Time: 11:15am – 12:15pm Place:Seminar Room 313, Simons Center Abstract: A well known result of Giroux tells us that isotopy classes of contact structures on a closed three manifold are in one to one correspondence with stabilization … Read more
